Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: Just because you're nude
NUDISTS have issued a "no overt sex" edict for unofficial nude beaches in response to a rising backlash over swingers parties.
Headline: Texas School District Ditches Homework
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 13.3.9
Caption: No More Books, No More Teachers' Dirty Looks
Stephanie Lucero with CBS11 in Dallas/Forth Worth has the story of a pilot program for Texas middles schools that will include no home work for students.
What's the best way to educate our children? Should it be that if they cheat, they always get a second chance? What about late school work? Should students be allowed to turn it in at any time, no matter how late? One North Texas school district is considering some drastic changes like these...
Headline: Man bites dog, gets animal ban
Clip from: Telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: The dog biting man
Philip Carter, from Loughborough, attacked Splodge, a cross terrier, when the dog bit him on the hand.
Carter, 29, appeared at Loughborough magistrates' court to be sentenced for causing Splodge unnecessary suffering and failing to get the dog cared for by a vet after it was injured.
John Sutcliffe, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told the court police officers were called to Carter's home on March 2 last year and found a trail of blood.
He said they discovered the dog with a wound to its nose that was bleeding severely.
Mr Sutcliffe said the dog was breathing heavily and struggling for breath...
Headline: Woman Finds Cat Living Inside Her $27 Used Couch
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: It's not a couch potato
SPOKANE, Wash. — The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.
After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.
Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a small hole on the underside.
Headline: Man guilty of stealing blow-up dolls for sex
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: Just a normal person
A MAN who broke into an adult shop and had sex with blow-up dolls said he had a "pretty healthy" sex life yesterday.
After receiving 15 months' probation for his bizarre sex crimes, Adam Troy Rosberg, 24, told The Cairns Post he had not been in need of sex.
"I have a girlfriend and our sex life is pretty good, pretty healthy," he said.
Asked if it ever involved blow-up dolls, Rosberg answered "no".
But he did say his girlfriend thought what he did with the dolls that night was "pretty funny really".
"She knows me and knows I'm a just a normal person and that this is something I wouldn't normally do," Rosberg said.
"But I had quite a few drugs that day: hallucinogens, amphetamines.
Headline: Public sector crippled by 'lovesick' hacker
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: Ah, Poor Puppy
MAN who crashed the Territory Government's computer system - costing taxpayers $1.2 million - was drunk and upset his fiancee had broken off their engagement, a court has heard.
David Anthony McIntosh pleaded guilty to 12 counts of unlawfully accessing and modifying data in the NT Supreme Court in January, the Northern Territory News reports.
In submissions from his lawyer Tom Berkley and prosecutor Paul Usher yesterday, the court heard that McIntosh hacked into the system on his workmate's computer, using her password.
He was living with her in May, 2008, when he logged into government servers and deleted 10,475 user accounts from the Health Department, hospital, prison and Supreme Court servers....
Headline: Atheists' Group, Church Battling With Bus Signs
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
An atheists' group and a church are taking their rivalry on the road, using ad space on Madison Transit buses to display their competing messages. The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is spending $2,100 on six signs appearing for up to two months inside 50 buses. Each sign has a quotation questioning religion or giving reasons for not believing.
Headline: Many Phones — Just One Number
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Things, They are changing
Google Inc is seeking to blur the line between the telephone and the computer even further with the introduction of Google Voice on Thursday.
The new service weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail email product, allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails.
Headline: For sale: One nagging wife, some rust
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Nag For Sale - Wife That Is
A BRITISH man fed up with his wife's complaints advertised her for sale - and got a number of offers.
"Nagging Wife. No Tax, No MOT (roadworthy certificate). Very high maintenance - some rust," wrote Gary Bates, 38, in a small ad in Trade-It, more usually used to buy and sell cars or household goods.
Mr Bates, a self-employed builder from Gloucestershire, southwest England, snapped after his wife Donna on got on his nerves while she was watching television and he decided to place the ad as a joke.
"She was nagging me for doing something small, while she was watching some rubbish on TV. So I just thought I'd put an ad in to get rid of her.
"I didn't think anyone would ring up but I've had at least nine or 10 people calling about her. It's gone mad. There was no one I knew - just people asking, 'Is she still available?'"..
Headline: Horse bites off man's testicle
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Horse Eats Man's Testicle - OUCH
AN Indonesian villager had to be rushed to hospital after a horse bit off one of his testicles.
The 35-year-old man was unloading sand from a horse-drawn cart at a construction site in Sulawesi earlier this week when the attack occurred, Indonesia's state-run news agency Antara reported.
A witness said the animal suddenly lunged at the man, sinking its teeth into his crotch.
Shocked bystanders loaded the man into a car to take him to hospital, before one noticed a piece of flesh on the pavement.
"Luckily the horse did not chew up or swallow his testicle, but spit it onto the pavement," the bystander was quoted as saying.
"So I picked it up and brought it to the doctor at the hospital where the victim was being treated
Headline: Power tool sex toy lands woman in hospital
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: Power Sex
SOME sexual experimentation landed an American woman in a hospital with injuries tough to imagine and even more difficult to forget.
The Maryland woman was flown to hospital on Monday after she was injured in the incident involving a sex toy attached to a sabre saw blade, according to NBCWashington.com.
The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner, the St Mary's County Sheriff's Office said.
NBCWashington.com reported the saw cut through the plastic toy and wounded the woman.
The injuries were severe enough for her to be flown to hospital but she was released on Tuesday.
